My oil burning pig. Pics too!

Oh yeah, I got updates.... 1. the cnc porting broke thru the valve cover screw holes. Knew that the day I got 'em, was told to put a little silicone on.....no big deal.

At the local head shop he found even when sealed with silicone, Loctite thread sealer,,,,,they were still pulling oil like crazy. And there was intake crossover mix up between the ports also. This explained the off idle miss I could NOT get rid of.

Epoxied up real nice now, pressure and vacuum tested and he even flowed 'em for me.

2. The BIG culprit was a horrible hone job last winter. When I refreshed this thing then, I had a local shop give it a quick hone. Looked good to me.

What happenned was their honing stones were broken, or something was stuck in them, so they ran a flexhone(dingleball) thru there to cover it up.

When my new, really good machinist saw the bores a couple weeks ago he knew immediately what happened. My friggin bores looked like they were threaded.

So now I'm .060 over with a great sonic check and beautiful hone job. I KNOW my heads are ok and my intake is cut properly. Been a rough friggin road getting to the bottom of this and I kinda knew I'd have to tear it apart and rebuild.

The decks were all over the place so it had to be decked, too. You'd think that should be done on the very first rebuild..

I hope to be back on the dyno soon. Still wavering on cam choice.

Oh.Yeah. No more Gapless rings for me. Probably not an issue but never ever again.